'An Existential Threat': Local Organizations Pledge to Fight Fracking in the Delaware River Watershed

The Delaware River Watershed is under threat. Delaware Riverkeeper Network released a press statement on July 16 that vowed a Pledge of Resistance and Protection against increasing efforts by pro-fracking interests working with both local and federal governmental officials to overturn the Delaware River Basin Commission’s (DRBC) fracking ban in the watershed alongside other attacks against the DRBC. Radio Catskill’s Julia Kim spoke with Delaware Riverkeeper Network Deputy Director Tracy Carluccio and Catskill Mountainkeeper Environmental Justice Coordinator Taylor Jaffe on the risks that fracking poses to the environment, the environmental burdens that marginalized communities have disproportionately faced and what local organizations are doing to challenge the political shift towards fracking.